Croatia will face two-time champions Argentina tonight in the fight to reach the finals.
According to the statistics, the two teams are evenly matched five times. The Croats have also won two matches and drawn one match against Le Albilested’s two wins.
Two of the four quarter-finals in the ongoing World Cup have been decided by tiebreakers. The winners of those two tiebreakers meet today. Let’s have a look at the performance of these two teams in the tiebreaker in the history of the World Cup.
Argentina beat the Netherlands 4-3 in the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Qatar. Again, in the semi-final of the 2014 World Cup, Lionel Messi beat the Netherlands 4-2. In the 2006 World Cup, Argentina lost 4-2 to Germany in a tiebreaker.
Argentina beat England 4-3 in the last 16 match of the 1998 World Cup. In the quarter-finals of the 1990 World Cup, Argentina reached the semi-finals by defeating Yugoslavia 3-2. In the same World Cup, Maradona’s Argentina reached the final after beating Italy 4-3.
Meanwhile, Croatia is ahead of Argentina in the tiebreaker.
The fate of Croatia’s three matches at the World Cup was decided by tiebreakers. They never lost there.
On the other hand, the fate of Argentina’s six matches is determined by tiebreakers. Argentina lost only one match there.
Croatia reached the semi-finals after defeating Brazil 4-2 in the quarter-finals of this year’s World Cup. And Croatia defeated Denmark by 3-2 in the last sixteen match of the 2018 World Cup.
In the same World Cup, they beat Russia 4-3 to reach the semi-finals.
